Chapter 190
For the entire entertainment industry, the turmoil in July has just ended, and August is still not peaceful.
MBC's unprecedented broadcast accident has just given a heavy blow to the broadcasting industry, the news of Ahn Junhyuk's establishment of an acting studio, and the "arrogance" of the subsequent media bets, once again stirred up bigger waves in this lake that has not yet subsided.
However, what makes it difficult for many people to accept is that Ahn Junhyuk's words that he wanted to promote Baek Ji-young to the first place seem to be really possible.
On the night of Music Bank's return to the stage, J.H.studio contacted Melon and other music source websites to release the digital version of "No More Love", among which Melon, which has the largest market share, has climbed into the top 10 since it was released on the night, and at the same time the next day, it has climbed into the top 10, entering the 8th place in the weekly download ranking and 12th place in the monthly download ranking.
Although this achievement is not too high, it cannot be compared with Ahn Jun-hyuk's "One Minute and One Second", Kim Jong Kook's "Standing Still" and other songs airborne ALL.KILL, but as Ahn Jun-hyuk said, this is just the beginning.
Whether it is radio, TV or even distributors, everyone is chasing profits, and they did not accept the return of Baek Ji-young before, because they were worried that their interests would be damaged, so when they returned to the stage on the second day, in the ratings survey report released by AGB Nielsen, the music bank set a record 20% of the ratings during Baek Ji-young's appearance, which was enough to overturn all their previous concerns!
Coupled with the rising rankings of "No More Love" and Melon's weekly rankings, anyone can see it. Baek Ji-young's comeback not only did not follow in the footsteps of 03 as predicted by the media, but rose quite strongly.
Not long after AGB announced the ratings report, the popular ballad and M!Countdown production team handed an olive branch to J.H.studio and invited Baek Ji-young to participate in the show. Many radio stations also began to send messages, saying that the entry of "No More Love" into the radio station could be renegotiated, and the conditions were negotiable.
Park Young-handon, who temporarily served as the company's chief executive, was very disdainful of these people's former and backward officials, thinking that they should be rejected, so as not to look down on people again in the future - no wonder he has such extreme ideas, it is really in the past. In order to create momentum for Baek Ji-young's return. He was angry enough by the weird attitude of these radio and television stations.
Of course, his impassioned proposal would not be adopted, and the radio and television stations pursued profits, as did J.H. studio. Popular songs and other programs. I hope that Baek Ji-young will attend to boost the ratings. J.H.studio hopes that Baek Ji-young will expose and promote "No More Love" to cheer up the sales of physical DVDs.
On the afternoon of the second day after returning to the stage, the printing house worked overtime to produce the DVD of "No More Love". Finally, it was put on the shelves of various video stores in Seoul, and at the same time, it quickly spread to the whole country through SM's distribution channels.
After the urgent negotiations that day, Baek Ji-young can finally appear on all stages as she did 4 years ago and announce her official return to the entertainment industry - there is no ban, no refusal, and no camera cuts, she can sing on stage.
Thanks to such timely publicity, Baek Ji-young's popularity and the sales of "Don't Love Anymore" began to grow explosively!
On the music source lists such as Melon, after "No More Love" jumped into the 8th place explosively from the first day, there was no lack of follow-up, but still moved forward firmly, and the MC dream "I.love.U.oh.thank.U", "The World is Invincible", Yin Daoxian's "It Seems to Be in Love" and other songs were overturned one by one, and later, Bao'er was not spared, and "Girls.On.Top", which was originally ranked second, was also overtaken.
I don't know how many people's eyes have been shocked by this change.
Although since the stage of the Music Bank, most of the media have borrowed the slogan first shouted by Yahoo Korea to describe Baek Ji-young's return as the most touching and perfect return to the stage in recent years, and also predicted her success, but the success to this point is too unexpected!
Every day, I don't know how many media stared at Melon's rankings, terrified of every step of "No More Love" to move up the rankings.
They are afraid.
On the day of the opening of J.H.studio, Ahn Jun-hyuk stood on the stage, and the scene of saying the "wild words" with cold eyes is still vivid, although they can pretend to be stupid, they can pretend not to hear anything, and Ahn Jun-hyuk did not mention the gambling contract again in the following time, but some of the media involved at the time knew that not mentioning it does not mean that they forgot, even if Ahn Jun-hyuk forgets, there are still people who remember.
If "No More Love" is really promoted, none of them, the media who jumped out to criticize Ahn Junhyuk at that time, will be able to escape the fate of being ridiculed by the people, and the reporters who were named by Ahn Junhyuk at the time may become a laughing stock in the circle.
However, it is consoling that Kim Jong Kook is still on the list.
"Standing Still" has always firmly occupied one place on the weekly chart, and I heard that soon Kim Jong Kook will announce the second main hit, a song called "Likable", those media found that they had never loved Kim Jong Kook so much as they do now, and like now, they pinned their hopes on a certain singer, hoping that he would be stronger, so as not to be slapped in the face The tragic plot appeared on them.
Ahn Junhyuk also knows a little about these media's private thoughts through channels in the circle, but he doesn't have time to pay attention to those people.
The popularity of "No More Love" not only pulled Bai Zhiying out of the trough of his career, but also made his fame hyped again.
Not to mention the series of hype before the release of the EP, anyone who bought a DVD or watched the MV can find his name in the most conspicuous place in the song "No More Love".
Lyrics, composition, arrangement, planning, production!
From beginning to end, except for the director of the MV, all positions were covered by him, and when people mentioned "No More Love", the first thing that came to mind was Baek Ji-young's affectionate singing, and then what came to mind was Ahn Jun-hyuk, who single-handedly created it and then raised it to a high position.
As an article in the authoritative music magazine Popular Music Voices put it:
...... "No More Love" is not only an important turning point in Baek Ji-young's career, a classic and perfect comeback, but also a complete transformation of Ahn Jun-hyuk. In the past, we remember Ahn Joon-hyuk as the best at hip-hop, and his songs such as "One Minute One Second" and "The Sun That Never Sets" are still at the top of the hip-hop best-selling charts. We see him as an important force in the hip-hop music industry, and when it was rumored that he was about to leave SM, The.Movement, the largest hip-hop family in China (which has big-name HIPHOP singers such as Leessang, Yin Zhiyuan, Tiger.JK, and T Yoon Mi-lai) handed him an olive branch, and finally he chose to stay in SM, which made the hip-hop industry quite regretful, and even I couldn't understand it......"
“…… It wasn't until I heard the song "No More Love" that he created it that I suddenly understood his choice. Hip-hop music is not the whole of his musical life, his talent is not just a little bit of play, he also has a deep accomplishment in lyric music, maybe he stayed at SM to learn and cross more music genres...... He created a classic KPOP-style lyrical rap, and now he has created a heart-wrenching lyric, and we may be able to hope that the next time he releases his work, he can bring us new senses with new themes!"
Although the article titled "The Transformation of the Heroes Behind the Scenes" does not show any obvious tendencies between the lines, it undoubtedly implies that Ahn Junhyuk has become a cutting-edge in the creative field, and it is not difficult for people who read the whole article to find that the writer's sentence "an important force in the hip-hop music industry" may indicate that he regards Ahn Junhyuk as an important force in the future of the entire music industry.
Originally, this statement was very taboo, there is no first, and no songwriter likes anyone to climb on his head.
But they still can't refute it, now is the most popular moment of "No More Love", it has been sought after by many people, fans describe its melody, its words are full of power that makes people cry, in the face of such a hot popularity, no one is stupid enough to stand up as a target.
So in the silence, Ahn Junhyuk's reputation spread widely in the music circle.
These days, I don't know how many singers' agents have called, hoping to contact him, and some music magazines also want to interview him, asking him to talk about his feelings about creating music, talk about his acquaintance with Baek Ji-young, and the background of the song "No More Love" tailored for her.
His busy life left him with no time to take care of himself.
Even he is not the only busy, Lee Yun-hee and Lim Yoon-a have also swelled in popularity because of their appearance in the MV!
Since the return to the stage of the music bank and the announcement of the MV, in the praise of Baek Ji-young on the Internet, I can often hear people ask like this-
"What kind of story is the MV about?It looks sad, the two girls are very beautiful, especially when the MV is the last to separate the hands that have been holding each other, my heart hurts!"
"It's a beautiful MV, ask the talent to help introduce the information of the two girls in the MV, it's so beautiful!"
Not long after these news appeared, they were discovered by SM's publicity department, SM knew that Ahn Junhyuk had asked their trainees to shoot a MV, but no one said what the specific MV was, if it weren't for Lin Yuna's relationship with An Junhyuk, no one in the company knew about it, I'm afraid I would have missed it.
In the face of such an opportunity, SM will naturally not let it go, and a lot of information about Li Yunxi and Lin Yuna was revealed on the Internet by "insiders". The two girls who starred in the MV were both SM trainees, and some fans quickly contacted SM and created a fanclub for them.
Even some advertisers began to try to contact and invite them to audition!
After getting the news, Ahn Jun-hyuk smiled and said that this was a person who had attained the Tao Chicken Dog Ascension to Heaven - of course, as soon as he spoke, he received an angry iron fist from Lin Xiaolu! For mobile phone users, please go to read. )